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The Physiology of Literature: A.A.Ukhtomskii And THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LITERATURE: A.A.UKHTOMSKII AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DOMINANT by SVETLANA R. OSADCHUK A THESIS Presented to the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts June 2018 THESIS APPROVAL PAGE Student: Svetlana R. Osadchuk Title: The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and the Principle of the Dominant This thesis has been accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Arts degree in the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program by: Dr. Katya Hokanson Chairperson Dr. Jenifer Presto Member and Sara D. Hodges Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Original approval signatures are on file with the University of Oregon Graduate School. Degree awarded June 2018 ii © 2018 Svetlana R. Osadchuk iii THESIS ABSTRACT Svetlana R. Osadchuk Master of Arts Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program June 2018 Title: The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and the Principle of the Dominant Russian physiologist Aleksei Alekseevich Ukhtomskii played exceptional role in the development of Russian humanities in general and Russian literary studies in particular; of special interest is his significant influence on the early works of Mikhail Bakhtin. He discovered and introduced into the scientific circulation the dominant principle that has become a point of departure in developing different important concepts such as dominant, chronotope, dialogue and others. This thesis, in a way, is a genealogical recounting of early 20th century Russian literary theory in light of its associations with the work of Ukhtomskii and a demonstration how his ideas can be used in further literary studies. iv CURRICULUM VITAE NAME OF AUTHOR: Svetlana R. Osadchuk GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL ATTENDED: University of Oregon, Eugene Tver State University, Tver, Russia DEGREES AWARDED: Master of Arts, Russian Literature, 2018, University of Oregon Bachelor of Arts, Philology, Teaching Russian Language and Literature 1997, Tver State University AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST: Russian Literary Criticism and Language Teaching PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: GTF, Russian Language Insructor, Russian and East European Studies Program, University of Oregon, September 2016 – June 2018 Staff Writer, The Moscow Times, February 2006 – December 2008 GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS: Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Russian, 2016 - 2018 v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my gratitude to the faculty of the Russian and East European Studies Department for awarding me a Graduate Teaching Fellowship, which provided me with the opportunity to study at the University of Oregon and write this thesis. I express sincere appreciation to my advisor Katya Hokanson for her assistance and guidance in the preparation of this thesis, for her valuable suggestions. I express my gratitude to Professors Jenifer Presto for her encouragement and interest to my ideas, for her insightful comments and, above all, to the very spirit of the academic freedom of one’s research that was of special importance for me and inspired my work. Special thanks to fellow REEES students, faculty and staff for all their efforts in creating a supportive and friendly academic environment. I am thankful to my dear family for their constant encouragement and support throughout the years of my study. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 1 II. A.UKHTOMSKII AND THE LAW OF THE DOMINANT ................................. 5 The Discovery of the Dominant ............................................................................. 7 The Dominant in the Higher Nervous Activity ...................................................... 10 III. THE DOMINANT IN LITERARY STUDIES...................................................... 15 Formalists and the Dominant ................................................................................. 16 M. Bakhtin and the Dominant ................................................................................ 19 IV. THE CONCEPT OF THE DOUBLE .................................................................... 26 V. A.UKHTOMSKII AND THE MODERN LITERARY STUDIES ........................ 30 The Pre-textual Dominant ...................................................................................... 30 The Textual Dominant ........................................................................................... 34 The Post-Textual Dominant ................................................................................... 41 VI. CONCLUSION...................................................................................................... 46 REFERENCES CITED ................................................................................................ 49 vii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The works of Alexey Alekseevich Ukhtomskii, Russian scientist-physiologist, are not well known in the West; the existing bibliography consists of hardly a dozen articles devoted to the analysis of his physiological views in the neuroscientific and psychological magazines. In Russia there is an increasing interest in his legacy; starting in the 1990s there was the discovery of previously unknown archival materials. The introduction into academic circulation of "humanistic" texts of the Russian scientist made it possible to raise awareness of his exceptional role in the development of Russian scientific-philosophical anthropology; of special interest is his significant influence on the early works of Mikhail Bakhtin. Under the conditions of suppression of any non-Marxist trends of thought, Russian natural sciences, just like Russian literature, have always been saturated by world view themes. During this period of time Ukhtomskii had no other ways of reaching public consciousness but through his personal contacts and discussions that followed his public scientific lectures. In the post-Stalinist era some of his of views were presented in the publications of his students V.L Merkulov and M.G. Yaroshevskii. Today various academic works in psychology, sociology, linguistics , psycholinguistics, literary and translation studies rarely fail to give credit to his synergistic teaching on the dominant principle that has become a point of departure in developing different important concepts such as dominant, chronotope, dialogue and others. Indeed, Ukhtomskii’s discovery of the main principle of the functioning of the human brain, behavior and worldview proved to be one of the most valuable contributions in the development of Russian humanities. 1 “He [Ukhtomskii] helped to see ways for conceiving the relation of mind and world as a dialogic continuum rather than as an unbridgeable gap.” 1 Different textbooks in humanities and linguistics introduce Ukhtomskii to University education and some even demonstrate how how his ideas can push literary criticism forward. For instance, the textbook in literary studies under the title Systemic View as a Foundation of Philological Thought (“Системный Взгляд как Основа Филологической мысли”) published in 2016 by the RUDN University, based on Ukhtomskii’sconcept of the integral dominant analyses of iterary works. Yet another academic monograph written at the junction of linguistics and psychiatry and called Introduction to Psychiatric Literary Criticism is profoundly influenced by Ukhtomskii’s teaching on the dominant. Recent textbooks in philosophy and literary studies that feature Bakhtin usually also feature Ukhtomskii and consider the two thinkers’ ideas to be deeply interconnected: “Especially powerful in Soviet times were the scientific and literary approaches <…> to the anthropological philosophy as they are expressed in the work of the physiologist Ukhtomskii and the literary critic Bakhtin” reads a 2012 textbook in philosophy. 2 V. Khalizev, one of the authors of the 2015 Moscow State University edition of “Russian Academic Literary Studies: History and Methodology (1900-1960 th )” states that "the voices of Ukhtomskii and Bakhtin in Russia sounded in unison in the 1920s…” 3 It is important to mention that the influence of Ukhtomskii on Bakhtin’s development was not only due to the fact that the natural sciences, especially physiology, were greatly 1 Katerine Clark, Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984), 175. 2 Vladimir Gorbunov, Grigorii Kuzmenko, Gennadii Otiutskii, and Mikhail Shakhov, Philosophiia (Moscow: RGSU, 2012), https:// studopedia.su/14_169974_filosofiya.html 3 Valentin Khalizev, "Uchenie A.A. Ukhtomskogo o Dominante I Rannie raboty Bakhtina,” in Bakhtinskii sbornik 2, ed. D. Kuindzhich and V. Makhlin (Moscow: Yazyki Snavianskoi kultury, 1991), 85. 2 respected among Russian intellectuals since the 1860 and were looked upon as the main sources to provide answers to the “social and ethical questions plaguing Russia.”4 What was important for Bakhtin is that although Ukhtomskii, as Holquist puts it, “was a workaday scientist whose research was rigorously empirical and highly respected by other scientists, his experiments were all performed in the service of answering the great questions of philosophy. He was able to maintain a balance between physiology and metaphysics that kept both in harmony without doing violence to the seriousness of either.” 5 This means there can be success for the truly interdisciplinary approach.
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